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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. Structure in which the project manager has full authority to assign priorities - apply resources and direct the work of persons assigned to the project






2. The statue - quality or sense of being restricted to a given course of action or inaction. an applicable restriction or limitation - either internal or external to a project - which will affect the performance of the project or a process.






3. Hierarchal structure of resources by resource category and resource type used in resource leveling schedules and to develop resource limited schedules and which may be used to identify and analyze project human resource management






4. Output from performing project management processes and activities. results include outcomes and documents.






5. Inclusive term - describes the sum of knowledge within the profession of project management. includes proven traditional practices that are widely applied and innovative practices that are emerging.






6. A general data gathering and creativity technique that can be used to identify risks - ideas or solutions to issues by using a group of team members or subject matter experts






7. Monitoring and recording results of executing the quality activities to assess performance and recommend necessary changes






8. An entry in the work breakdown structure that can be at any level






9. A mutually binding agreement that obligates the seller to provide the specified product or service or result and obligates the buyer to pay for it






10. Estimate of the amount of work that has been completed on an activity or a work breakdown structure component






11. Modification that allows an acceleration of the successor activity.






12. Judgment provided based upon expertise in an application area - knowledge area - discipline - industry - etc. as appropriate for the activity being performed.






13. A condition or situation favorable to the project - a positive set of circumstances - a positive set of events - a risk that will have a positive impact.






14. A technique that explores the accuracy of assumptions and identifies risks to the project from inaccuracy - inconsistency - or incompleteness of assumptions






15. Technique for estimating that applies a weighted average of optimistic - pessimistic and most likely estimates when there is uncertainty with the individual activity estimates






16. Hierarchically organized depiction of the identified project risks arranged by risk category and subcategory that identifies the various areas and causes of potential risks.






17. A product - result or service generated by a process






18. Action taken to bring a defective or nonconforming component into compliance with requirements or specifications






19. An artifact that is produced - is quantifiable and can be either an end item in itself or a component item






20. Condition or situation unfavorable to the project - a negative set of circumstances - a negative set of events - a risk that will have a negative impact on a project objective if it occurs - or a possibility for negative changes






21. Float (total float - free float)






22. Subsystem of overall project management system. collection of formal documented procedures that defines how project work will be authorized to ensure that the work is done by the identified organization - at the right time and in the proper sequence.






23. The earliest point in time on which the uncompleted portions of a schedule activity can start - based on the schedule network logic - the data date and any schedule constraints.






24. The process of completing each project procurement






25. Graphic display of schedule related information.






26. Category or rank used to distinguish items that have the same functional use but do not share the same requirements for quality






27. A category of projects that have common components significant in such projects - but are not needed or present in all projects. application areas are usually defined in terms of either the product or the type of customer or industry sector






28. The process of prioritizing risks for further analysis or action by assessing and combining their probability of occurrence and impact






29. Documenting the actions necessary to define - prepare - integrate and coordinate all subsidiary plans






30. Person or group that provides financial resources in cash or in kind for the project






31. Any form of schedule network analysis in which scheduling decisions are driven by resource constraints






32. An information gathering technique used as a way to reach a consensus of experts on a subject. experts on the subject participate in the technique anonymously. a facilitator uses a questionnaire to solicit ideas about the important project points rel






33. Identifying all people or organizations impacted by the project and documenting relevant information regarding their interest - involvement and impact on project success






34. Document issued by the project initiator or sponsor that formally authorizes the existence of a project and provides the project manager with the authority to apply organization resources to the project activities






35. Work breakdown structure component below the control account with known work content but without detailed schedule activities.






36. Risk response planning technique that indicates the project team has decided not to change the project management plan to deal with a risk - or is unable to identify any other suitable response strategy






37. Risk response planning technique associated with threats that seeks to reduce the probability of occurrence or impact of a risk to below an acceptable threshold






38. The latest possible point in time that a schedule activity maybe completed based upon schedule network logic - the completion date and any constraints assigned to the schedule activities without violating a schedule constraint or delaying the project






39. Logical relationship where completion of the successor schedule activity is dependent upon the initiation of the predecessor schedule activity






40. Document that describes how the project scope will be defined - developed and verified and how the work breakdown structure will be created and defined and that provides guidance on how the project scope will be managed and controlled by the project






41. Document that describes how procurement processes from developing procurement documentation through contract closure will be managed






42. A group of related projects managed in a coordinated way to obtain benefits and control not available from managing them individually.






43. Any of all process related assets - from any or all of the organizations involved in the project that are or can be used to influence the project's success. these process assets include formal or informal plans - policies - procedures and guidelines.






44. Any of all external environmental factors and internal organizational environmental factors that surround or influence the projects success. these factors are from any or all of the enterprises involved in the project and include organizational cultu






45. Aggregation of the processes - tools - techniques - methodologies - resources and procedures to manage a project






46. Process of numerically analyzing the effect of identified risks on overall project objectives






47. Group of related schedule activities aggregated at some summary level and displayed as a single activity at that summary level. same as summary activity.






48. Analytical procedure in which each potential failure mode in every component of a product is analyzed to determine its effect on the reliability of that component and - by itself or in combination with other possible failure modes - on the reliabilit






49. The time in calendar units between the start and finish of a schedule activity






50. A point that is not settled or is under discussion or over which there are opposing views or disagreements